Talk:Pretoria Ring Road

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Applicable Sections of Road[edit]

I asked a few of my uncles and friends; and they told me that Pretoria only has a "Northern Bypass" (N4) and an "Eastern Bypass" (N1). There is no road apart from these two that "circles" the city of Pretoria, as stated in the older version of this article and in its current introductory paragraph.

Looking at the direction the "Ben Schoeman Freeway" is facing when coming from the south, it is not clear how the "N14" constitutes part of a "Ring Road".

So, is it actually true that the city of "Pretoria" has a complete or almost-complete "Ring Road" around it when it is not so clear which roads form the western part of it? Chils Kemptonian (talk) 21:06, 25 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Well, so far, I have changed the "Route" section of the article to include only the two roads mentioned in the Introductory Paragraph.

Anybody who studies the map will know that Pretoria currently does not have a "Western Bypass" & so, it cannot have a "complete ring road".

Again, the "Ben Schoeman Highway" coming from Johannesburg in the south is pointing directly towards Pretoria CBD. So, it is not possible for it to constitute part of a "Ring Road" or a "Bypass".

No road qualifies to be called the "Western Bypass" at the moment, especially not the N14 (Ben Schoeman Highway). Even the R80 does not qualify to be called a road "bypassing the city centre" at the moment.

In conclusion, only two roads form a "Bypass" around Pretoria, namely the N1 Highway (Eastern Bypass; Danie Joubert Freeway) and the N4 Highway (Northern Bypass; Platinum Highway). Chils Kemptonian (talk) 15:05, 16 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]